Christian-Bourbon County KyArchives Biographies.....Shipp, William M. October 25, 1810 - December 31, 1881
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Author: County Christian, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin, F. A Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884
WILLIAM M. SHIPP, deceased, was born October 25, 1810, in Bourbon County, Ky.;
he was the son of Laban Shipp, who came to Christian County about 1816, where
he spent the remainder of his useful life, endearing himself to a large circle
of friends; he and his wife, Elizabeth Shipp, were both natives of Virginia,
and were among the pioneers of Bourbon County, Ky. William M. was the younger
of a large family and was educated under Prof. Rumsey in the old Hopkinsville
Academy. In 1833 he married Elizabeth Hopson, of Christian County, who died in
1867, leaving two children, viz.: May S., wife of Dr. William Hopson, of
Hopkinsville, and Sallie P., wife of W. J. Withers. His second wife, who still
survives him, and who resides on the old homestead adjoining the city of
Hopkinsville, was Miss Lottie LeMaster. Mr. Shipp himself improved the above
mentioned farm, consisting of several hundred acres of valuable land, where he
spent about forty years of his life, and where he died on Saturday, December
31, 1881. Mrs. Lottie (LeMaster) Shipp, is the daughter of John W. and Nance
Lee LeMaster (nee Allmond). The father descended from an early Huguenot family
of South Carolina, and served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution. Capt.
John W. LeMaster was born in South Carolina, but came from there in early life
to Tennessee, where he was married to Miss Allmond; he served in the war of
1812. Their union resulted in the birth of several children, of whom five grew
to maturity. Mrs. Shipp, the third of this number, was born in 1832, in
Columbia, Maury Co., Tenn.' Was educated in her native town, and when about
nineteen years old became a teacher in the old Columbia Anthenaeum, in which
relation she continued until her marriage with W. M. Shipp, in October, 1868.
She has one daughter, Elizabeth Jones Shipp, born April 24, 1871.
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